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Muscle Twitches

Muscle Twitches (Overview)

The twitches you can see and feel in muscle are contractions of irritable muscle fibers. They are sometimes seen with muscle fatigue. I sometimes see young people with fasciculations who google the word and come in afraid they have ALS . There is also an entity called benign fasciculation syndrome that is sometimes accompanied by cramping. Caffeine and theophylline (in tea) can provoke them.

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Muscle Twitches (Overview)

The twitches you can see and feel in muscle are contractions of irritable muscle fibers. They are sometimes seen with muscle fatigue. I sometimes see young people with fasciculations who google the word and come in afraid they have ALS . There is also an entity called benign fasciculation syndrome that is sometimes accompanied by cramping. Caffeine and theophylline (in tea) can provoke them.

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ADHD medication:
Stimulant medications can cause muscle twitchings and cause an underlying tic problem to surface or get worse. Moderate to severe tics should be a reason to discontinue the stimulant med.
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Time:
Tincture of time. As your body, in particular your nervous system adjusts to the absence of your medication and resets its thresholds so your muscle twitching should resolve. If it does not then you may consider that it is not due to drug withdrawal, but has another cause within the muscle or the nerves to the muscle.
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Many possibilities:
Muscle twitches can be caused by a wide variety of things. More common causes are caffeine, stress and nutrient deficiency. If you were having a lot of diarrhea with your amebiasis, you might have also had some nutrient loss. Persistent muscle twitching can also be a symptom of a more serious problem. I recommend you see your doctor for an evaluation.
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See a doc:
It is important to try to find the underlying causes of muscle twitching. Usually if this is done, the twitching can be "cured". There are many reasons for muscles to twitch including, fatigue, too much caffeine, thyroid disorders, disorders of calcium or magnesium metabolism, toxins and some neurological disorders. See your doc and have it evaluated.
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Alzheimers disease:
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer's disease are both neurodegenerative diseases. The muscles are not dead. It is the neurons that are dying. In ALS it is the motor neurons that are dying and in ALzheimer's it is the neurons of the hippocampus (temporal lobe) that are dying. People with ALS maintain their cognitive function but the Alzheimer's patients do not.
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It is a body tissue that has the ability to contract. It shortens and generates force. It relaxes and returns to its original length. Muscles move joints, stabilize the body, move air and food through the organs, act as valves for bladder, bowel and other organs. They control movement of the eyes. They help us express ourselves by changing the shape of our faces (smile, frown, etc).
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